Tabletop RPG Podcast and Roleplaying Resources
I like to use vertical ruled index cards in my campaigns. Available from Staples, the Oxford “padded index cards” are tear-off pads of index cards with the lines oriented in portrait not landscape mode. These come in handy for a variety of things:
Here is the information to find them at Staples:
Oxford Padded Index Cards
Ruled Tear-Off Pads
100 5?x3?
White Item No. 006351 (Esselte Corp.)
I thought this was a pretty interesting insight regarding character motivations. The article is talking about Superheroes, but this also applies to character-oriented fiction.
The io9 article makes the point that the motivation comes from the origin story saying: “as [Gail] Simone [writer of Birds of Prey and Secret Six] puts it, the point of the origin story isn’t really to explain how the hero got his/her powers, it’s to explain ‘what they most desire, what they most fear. The best origins, like Spider-man’s, Batman’s, and the like, encapsulate the character’s reason to exist. The worst merely explain that a drum of radioactive waste fell on their head and now they can fly.'” (source)
I also liked what a reader of the article said in the comments section:
The ‘super’ of ‘superhero’ is much less important than the ‘hero’ component. (source)
Fred Hicks and the FATE designers have a new site where they are talking about FATE and moving towards documented the FATE 3.0 SRD. Here’s the site.
Here’s an example of their efforts at crowdsourcing:
So, Evil Hat is limited in what it can do at any one time, but over the years we’ve been gifted with an incredible resource — our fans — who have, time and again, come through for us in terms of getting the word out, providing ad-hoc support of our products, acting as a distributed grass-roots customer service and sales force, and so on. Heck, the reason there’s an SRD of Spirit of the Century that has been acting as our Fate 3 SRD for the past several years is because some fans stepped up and created the document(s) for us.
We couldn’t be more pleased about this, but it’s also humbling to realize there are so many folks out there willing to jump up and help us out whenever we ask for it. It’s that realization that keeps us from making constant requests of our fans. (A good thing, too — if we pushed out too much “signal” through our fans, the general public would tire of it, and eventually our fans would too.)
All the same, we need your help today.
First, follow the instructions on my prior link here:
http://swshinn.com/writing-tips/autopost-to-facebook-and-twitter/
Once you’ve done the above, you can post to WordPress blog and it will echo out to both Facebook and Twitter.
Next, manually connect Twitter to your Buzz. Here’s how:
Log in to Gmail. When you click “Buzz” and then click “Connected Sites”, you’ll see the source manager; this lets you control permission levels for each source (in other words, you can set it so that your posts via Twitter are shared with certain people as opposed to your default privacy settings). [Note: controlling this was pretty un-intuitive. You’d think you could get to this under “Settings”, but you can’t. Bad design.]
That’s it! Enjoy.
Is Google’s new Buzz feature a Facebook / Twitter killer? Time will tell. For the near term though, it’s probably a good idea to check it out. With Twitter-to-Buzz integration, you can easily set up Buzz to mirror your Twitter posts. In my next post I’ll show how to integrate Facebook and a WordPress Blog so you can post-once and it will echo out to Twitter, Facebook and Buzz with zero extra steps.
In the meantime, here’s some Power User Tips:
TWITTER TO BUZZ
You can manually connect Twitter to your Buzz. When you click “Buzz” and then click “Connected Sites”, you’ll see the source manager; this lets you control permission levels for each source (in other words, you can set it so that your posts via Twitter are shared with certain people as opposed to your default privacy settings). [Note: controlling this was pretty un-intuitive. You’d think you could get to this under “Settings”, but you can’t. Bad design.]
@REPLIES
When you’re entering a comment, your @reply will add people to the post and deliver it to their inbox. For example, type in “@mary” and you’ll see a list of matches. Note that while this makes it “private”, it appears that that person can share your comment with others much as an email may be forwarded, so beware this loophole.
FILTERING
If you’re a power user already using Gmail filters, note that your regular email filters will apply to Google Buzz messages, so you can control what types of messages you see.
BUZZ DOCUMENTATION
Finding the Buzz documentation was a bit of a chore, so I included the direct link here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=27291
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